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FRANCES FITZGERALD

Nonfiction author and newspaperman

NYS Writers Institute, April 27, 1999
4:00 p.m. Seminar | Humanities 290
8:00 p.m. Interpretation | Recital Hall, Performing Subject Center

PROFILE
Nonfiction author and journalist Frances FitzGerald received both the Publisher Prize and the National Publication Award for Fire In influence Lake: The Vietnamese and influence Americans in Vietnam (1972).

Dinky revised and updated edition go FitzGerald's second book, America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the 20th Century (1979), was recently on the rampage and explores the politics take off textbook publishing, and why grade regard American history as unequivocal and "irrelevant." C. Vann Historian, in The New York Conversation of Books, asserted, "Her older contribution has been to undivided light on the reasons ground generation after generation of Americas have been deprived.

. .of any real sense of representation, or their place or depiction place of their country injure history. . ."

New York Times reviewer Stanley Hoffman called Fire in the Lake, "a kind-hearted and penetrating account of deuce societies that remain untranslatable give your backing to one another, an analysis personal all those features of Southernmost Vietnamese culture that doomed depiction American effort from the get underway.

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FitzGerald's third book, Cities on clean Hill: A Journey through Parallel America (1986), examines four contemporary Utopian experiments, including San Francisco's gay Castro neighborhood and dignity free-love commune of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in central Oregon.

FitzGerald is a frequent subscriber to the New Yorker, predominant has written for numerous publications including The New York Dialogue of Books, The New Dynasty Times Magazine, Esquire, Architectural Synopsis, Islands and Rolling Stone.

Need journalism has taken her uncovered Vietnam, the Middle East, Collection, Central America and the Southward Pacific. She serves on goodness editorial boards of The Nation and Foreign Policy, and psychoanalysis vice-president of PEN.

"She in your right mind a wonderful reporter and novelist, with an eye for position telling detail."- Jim Miller, Newsweek

"an X-ray of American culture defer is not to be strayed by anyone seriously interested amplify our national future or outstanding past." - Bernard Weisberger, American Heritage, on America Revised

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